Sorry if this is cliched, but I figured we could use this thread to spread the word about certain RPGs that are our favorites, and other people can check them out.
Arc the Lad 2 \ <3 strategy rpgs (even if these 2 are a bit on the easy side)
FFT /
Vanguard Bandits
Front Mission 3 } <3 mechs
Xenogears /
Star Ocean 2 \ Mostly gameplay here
Valkyrie Profile/
Lunar: The Silver Star
Lunar: Eternal Blue }
Lunar: SSSC }Teh funneh
Lunar 2: EBC }
Fallout /
Uncharted Waters 2 (First RPG I actually owned)
Breath of Fire 3
Secret of Evermore (mostly nostalgia setting in)
Nethack (Foul language inducer)
Planescape: Torment
Tales of Eternia Mech Crusaders (browser game I’ve wasted over a year on)
Castlevania: SOTN
Phantasy Star 1, 2 and 4
Rather than a top 5 list, since the point of the thread is to mention RPGs that others may not know about, or give referral to them (Which is a really cool idea, btw), I’ll try to list a few good RPGs on each platform that I’ve tried an RPG for.
NES:
Mother (Earthbound Zero)
Final Fantasy 3
Game Boy:
Final Fantasy Adventure
Final Fantasy Legend 2
SNES:
Final Fantasy 4
Der Langrisser
Romancing SaGa 3
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Genesis:
Warsong
Phantasy Star 2
Phantasy Star 4
Sega Saturn:
Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Langrisser 4
Playstation:
SaGa Frontier
Final Fantasy Tactics
Breath of Fire 3
Front Mission 4
Legend of Mana
Nintendo 64
Paper Mario
Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Calibur
Quest 64 (I don’t know why I bother with this one, I know no one likes it already)
Sega Dreamcast:
Grandia 2
Phantasy Star Online
Game Boy Advance:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (I really haven’t found a good GBA RPG besides this one…)
Gamecube:
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Haven’t really found a good GCN RPG besides this one…)
Playstation 2:
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Final Fantasy 10
Growlanser 2
Growlanser 3
Shadow Hearts
The ones listed in my profile+all FFs (in a top 10 manner)+Bahamut Lagoon. BL rocked…the mix between Advance Wars and FF. THAT was some cool stuff. Fantabulous. Did I praise it enough?
<A HREF=“http://www.gamespot.com/user/collection.html?user=RPGC_MrSaturn”>Now, I have also done so</A>. And I guess I’ll put it in my sig, as well. They didn’t have a few of the games that I have in their system, though. Somewhere around 30 or 40 games. They didn’t let me catalog my strategy guides, either.